AP sources: CIA director Panetta to take over Pentagon; Petraeus to be nominated for CIA

[jefferson_dem]

Source: AP

AP — AP () — — AP sources: CIA director Panetta to take over Pentagon; Petraeus to be nominated for CIA



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[Solly Mack]

1. ...

blech

[No Elephants]

15. +1

[gimama]

2. wthell?!

this doesn't "feel" right, to me..

[shotten99]

3. Panetta in DoD? Why not Wesley Clark?!

[peacetalksforall]

5. Yep!

[peacetalksforall]

4. Patraeus a nominee? Maybe there is some hope there. To jail, I say.

Is Manetta a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. It would explain plenty.

[Donnachaidh]

6. we've always been at war with Eurasia

:puke:

[Bragi]

7. Desk swapping we can believe in! /nt

[Lint Head]

8. Incest begins at home. These boys must feel right at home.

[24601]

19. You're not even close. Panetta has not held any appointed DoD

positions and Petraeus has never had an intelligence assignment CIA is an independent agency and isn't in the DoD like 80% of the national Intelligence community.

Although I believe Petraeus will do OK, he's an intelligence consumer not a producer - perhaps Obama might like to appoint an auto mechanic as Surgeon General and a cook as Attorney General]

There is an interesting aspect to this - with Dave Petraeus at CIA and Keith Alexander running NSA (both 4-star/full generals), the West Point Class of 1974 will be running the vast majority of US national intelligence.

[Bluenorthwest]

9. Gimme that ol' time religion!

Definition of CHANGE
transitive verb
a : to make different in some particular : alter
b : to make radically different : transform
c : to give a different position, course, or direction to

[Demit]

10. Sounds like a little cross-training to me.

[ensho]

11. well, piss on the two Ps

a change that isn't

disgusting

[neoralme]

12. With Petraeus at CIA, there will be more Death Camps all over

the world. Panetta will be horrible at Defense.

[PATRICK]

13. Another snake in the chicken coop

as far as Petraeus is concerned if previous DU posting are correct. One with political aspirations that will come back to plague the nation too. This is worse than Clinton using Powell. And our "success" in the two wars qualifies Petraeus for intelligence oversight? His nose to the despicable agenda and propaganda seems the most formative of his motivations. Make the work of other work for himself in looking good and sounding good as some sort of lesser MacArthur.

Whatever his virtues this seems to display some of the weakness of the President in military matters and managing the horrific agendas of his predecessors.

[AtheistCrusader]

14. What is this, some sort of sick tag-team?

I mean WTF

[Hardrada]

18. Sick-bag team actually.

[Baclava]

16. Skull & Bones

All I can think of is The shadow Government lives on.

[jakeXT]

17. k&r

[jmowreader]

20. Oh, come on...making an infantryman Director of Central Intelligence?

David Petraeus has never worked in the intelligence field. He might be the greatest consumer who ever lived, but there's a drastic difference between producing and consuming intel.

The president would be better served in the role of CIA director by whoever is the C-2 (combined forces--more than one nation's military) officer at either US Army Europe in Germany or 8th Imperial Army in Korea.

[midnight]

21. This sounds like musical chairs to me.....